Online Textbooks for Math 502 - Spring 2015 - WIU-Quad Cities Campus

The online textbooks below -which are available free of charge - will be used in Math 502.

In addition to examples and exercises from these textbooks, additional real-world applications will be provided and algebra activities suitable for use in grades 5-8 will be presented.

College Algebra Book Online, with video lectures - I believe this is an online version of a (full) College Algebra textbook by Marvin L. Bittinger published in 2006 (BTW, this physical/actual book is available used online.) Included are animations and PowerPoint slides.

College Algebra, by Paul Dawkins - The 356-page PDF has explanations and examples, but does not have exercises. (www.freebookcentre.net/ link here) (download page)

• Algebra Notes - Explanations and examples. (This html-format is clickable.)
• Algebra Practice Problems - Practice problems with solutions which can be shown. (This html-format is clickable.)
• Algebra Assignment Problems - These are exercises with no solutions given. (This html-format is clickable.)

Big Ideas Algebra I free online textbook - This is a student textbook. This is a good way to see what 8th or 9th grade Algebra students might see. Has a clickable table-of-contents. (choose book page)

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